Bear Sweater Duet

The Seattle Knitters Guild is knitting teddy bear sweaters for Camp Erin again this year. I didn't participate last year because I was working on other charity knits and there was a devoted fleet of knitters churning out knits for bears at the Guild. This year there haven't been nearly enough bear items knit and I decided to pitch in. I already gave you a look at a hat that I turned into a tiny bottom-up raglan. And I knit a simple bear sweater in Berocco Quasar that I completely forgot to photograph before handing in.

I knit another one in Manos Maxima which I did photograph.



And then I started another one at knitting on Monday but I didn't have any markers with me to mark the raglan increases. Instead I fudged my way through a top-down yoke sweater with roughly the same proportions in the same yarn.



Next I'm thinking maybe one with helix stripes...

Franklin Habit at SKG This Month

Franklin Habit, cartoonist, designer, photographer, author, will present Impractical Magic: The Other Side of Weldon’s Practical Needlework at the Seattle Knitters Guild on September 7 at 7 pm.

Beginning in the 1880s, and for decades thereafter, the editors of Weldon's Practical Needlework provided an enormous audience of amateur craftswomen with patterns for garments designed to be warm, strong, long-lived and, well, practical. But Weldon's had another side, too. A side that proposed the knitting of covers for tennis balls, of knitting whips for children, and of covering open flames with crinkled tissue paper. In this illustrated talk–not for the faint of heart–we'll take a look at what our great-great-grandmothers were up to when they'd already knit a sufficiency of Socks for Invalids.

As always Guild meetings are free and open to the public.

See Me Tonight at the Seattle Knitters Guild

I will be giving a talk on using Ravelry tonight for the Seattle Knitters Guild.

Ravelry, Tips for Beginners and Pros
Do you use Ravelry? You really should. It's an amazing tool for any yarn-fancier. Part database, part social network, Ravelry brings the world of knit and crochet together to share information and ideas. Programming co-chair, Jessica Rose, a Ravelry user since April 2007, will walk you through getting started and show you some of the great tools available. Manage your stash, know your needles, get inspired and get organized.

Hope you can make it.